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reading assignment

n. the reading of a passage assigned by the teacher

Usage examples of "reading assignment".

First you're going to see how to write, which is why I chose 'Arms and the Writer' as your first reading assignment, so you can understand the importance of choosing the right words.

She'd understood the night before when she'd devoured every word of the first reading assignment.

All I do on the first day is gather the enrollment cards and give out a reading assignment.

Confronted with having to cough up an answer, Stiles felt as if he were back in grade school and hadn't done his reading assignment.